{"id":186181,"date":"2016-02-01T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=186181"},"modified":"2016-02-01T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T12:28:50","slug":"premier-league-clubs-spending-reaches-1bn-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=186181","title":{"rendered":"Premier League clubs&#8217; spending reaches \u00a31bn this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Premier League clubs have spent more than \u00a31bn on transfers in a season for the first time, new figures reveal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A record \u00a3965m was spent in 2014-15, but that figure has already been beaten, with clubs having until 23:00 GMT on Monday to sign further players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 20 clubs have already spent \u00a3130m in the January transfer window alone, with Newcastle spending \u00a329m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have signed Jonjo Shelvey, Andros Townsend and Henri Saivet, and bid \u00a321m for West Brom striker Saido Berahino.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen Premier League clubs again use the January window to invest significantly in playing talent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;With a day left, the total gross spending this season has already reached \u00a31bn for the first time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-186182\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"602\" height=\"588\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League clubs have spent more than \u00a31bn on transfers in a season for the first time, new figures reveal. A record \u00a3965m was spent in 2014-15, but that figure has already been beaten, with clubs having until 23:00 GMT on Monday to sign further players. The 20 clubs have already spent \u00a3130m in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}